Pattern Maker™ /ME Features

Fabric size up to 999x999 stitches

Fabric options include color, stitch size, & grid style

Full, half, quarter, back and French knots

Flexible back stitch for drawing satin stitches

Text entry feature including 25 alphabets by Kooler Design Studio

Editing - cut, copy, paste, flip, rotate, flood fill, fill back-stitched area

Multi-level undo of edits (up to 100)

Convert true type fonts to stitches AND 50 built in backstitch fonts that work like a word processor.

Colors per pattern:

Hand XS Color Lists:  DMC, Anchor, and J&P Coats

Machine XS Color Lists:  Sulky Rayon, Robison Anton, DMC-ME, Brother, Janome, Madeira, Mettler

Blended colors

Automatic, intelligent symbol selection

Use the provided cross-stitch symbol font (224 symbols) or other font

Stitch usage summary

Selectable stitch thicknesses (per strand count)

Strand count selection per color, per stitch type

Symbol selection per stitch type

Symbol color selection

Color behind symbols

Back stitch symbols with selectable color, style, and thickness

Palette note per color, per stitch type

Image formats: BMP, PCX, GIF, WMF, JPEG, TIFF & more

Direct importing from scanner (TWAIN)

Image over/underlay feature for tracing images

Image Importing Wizard which simplifies the importing process

Import using one of the floss lists or with a user-created palette

Fine control of sizing and positioning   for under/overlay images when  manually aligning an image with the design grid

Image adjustments (color, contrast, brightness, & cropping)

Grid alignment tool to aid in aligning the grid of an image to the design grid.  Also calculates the required pattern size.

Export into any of the common machine formats:

Brother/Baby Lock/Bernina (PES/PEC)
Compucon/Singer PSW (XXX)
Elna XPressive (EMD)
Janome Customizer 10000 (JEF)
Janome New Home (SEW)
Melco (EXP)
Pfaff (PCS)
Poem/Singer EU (CSD)
Tajima (DST)
Viking Husqvarna (HUS)
Viking (VIP)
Viking HuskyGram (old-style CSD) (CSD)

Design conversion using Buzz Tools® software

Hoop size selectable from a list of common sizes or specify a custom size

Automatically splits designs that are larger than the selected hoop size

Alignment stitches available to aid in the stitch-out of multi-hoop designs

Automatically splits designs into multiple files based upon user-selectable stitch and thread-change limits

Detailed exporting results to aid in the stitch-out including:
    * Graphic of the design showing hoop boundaries 
        (for multi-hoop designs)
    * General design information (size, hoop size, etc.)
    * List of machine files generated including count of stitches and colors
    * Thread change list for each file including color name 
       & count of stitches

Display of exporting results in a window next to a window showing the design.  Provides the above information plus jump stitch count.  

Display of  jump stitches for the selected color (after exporting)

Selectable stitch thickness for each stitch type and palette color

Highlighting of the selected color for easy stitch location

Combine a pattern into other documents using Windows^™ OLE

Export chart into a graphics file

Supports over 16 graphics file formats including BMP, JPEG, and TIFF

Information exported in RTF format

Display/print patterns as stitches, symbols, or solids

Detailed pattern information display/print-out

Print preview

Library feature (organize pattern elements for easy reuse)

Display a pattern using multiple windows

Complete on-line help

Comprehensive Users' Manual

30 professionally designed patterns by The Vermillion Stitchery

Windows 32-bit program

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